Hold Gold Copies Away from Ransomware
Ransomware encrypts everything it can reach. Your gold copies, the last line of defence, should be physically unreachable. Offline Secure Storage (OSS) makes that possible.
We Think This Is Hard to Ignore
Ransomware attacks have risen 105%, and the average attack costs a UK business £210,128. At Firevault, your gold copies live on hardware that physically disconnects after every sync, because the only backup ransomware cannot encrypt is one it cannot reach.
£14.7B
Total annual cyber cost to UK businesses
KPMG for DSIT 2025
£210,128
Average ransomware cost per UK business
KPMG for DSIT 2025
4,523
Ransomware incidents reported to the ICO
ICO 2025
105%
Ransomware attack increase year on year
Sophos 2024
Your backups are not safe if they are connected.
Backup Targeting
Modern ransomware specifically hunts for and encrypts backup systems first.
Cloud Backups at Risk
Cloud-connected backups are reachable, and therefore encryptable.
NAS Vulnerabilities
Network-attached storage is on the same network as the threat.
Backups are already being encrypted.
Jaguar Land Rover: Ransomware Encrypted Systems, £1.9B Economic Cost
Production lines at Solihull, Halewood, and Wolverhampton went dark. Over 1,000 vehicles per day lost. Supply chain paralysed for weeks.
Computing, October 2025
NHS Synnovis: Ransomware Paralysed London Hospitals for Months
A ransomware attack on pathology provider Synnovis disrupted blood tests and operations across major London hospitals. Stolen patient data was published online by the attackers.
BBC News, June 2024
Marks and Spencer: DragonForce Encrypted Core Retail Systems
M&S halted online clothing and home orders after ransomware encrypted critical systems. Click-and-collect was not restored for months.
BBC News, 2025
The Scenario
It is 6am on a Monday.
Your CISO calls. Ransomware has encrypted every server, every backup, every NAS. The attackers want £2M in Bitcoin. Your insurer will not pay because your backups were network-connected. But your gold copies? They were in a Firevault vault. Physically disconnected. Untouched.
"The only backup that survived was the one they could not reach."
Write the gold copy. End the network path. Recover clean.
Your gold copies are written to dedicated RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker during an identity-verified sync window. Once the write is complete, the drives physically disconnect. No network cable. No Wi-Fi. No API. No path for ransomware to follow. When ransomware encrypts everything it can reach, your gold copy is not among them, because it is not connected to anything. When you need to recover, a physical connection is re-established, and the gold copy is intact, unencrypted, and ready.
- Ransomware targets backups first, but your gold copy is on hardware that physically disconnects after every sync. There is no network path to follow
- Not a cloud backup, no API to compromise, no credentials to steal, no always-on connection for ransomware to traverse
- Not a NAS, your gold copies are not on the same network as the threat. They sit in a sealed Firevault Bunker with no network interface
- Recovery is immediate, when ransomware encrypts everything it can reach, a physical connection to your untouched gold copy is created on your authority
Write the Clean Copy to Offline Storage
Step 1 of 3During an identity-verified sync window, your gold copies are written to dedicated RAID 1 drives inside a Firevault Bunker. The data is committed to hardware that exists outside your network perimeter. For Storage and Enterprise tiers, automated sync runs via API or SFTP within scheduled windows.
Choose Your Protection
Which OSS Fits?
300GB
Low Use Vault, Deep Cold Storage
From £74.99/mo
inc. VAT · £0 due today
Deep cold storage for gold copies of critical configuration, credentials, and encryption keys.
What 300GB holds
Use Cases for Ransomware Protection
- Gold copy of Active Directory and GPO configs
- Encryption keys and certificate archives
- Critical system configuration snapshots
- Disaster recovery runbooks and procedures
- Baseline firmware and OS images
Specifications
Capacity
300GB
Access
2 windows/week
Authentication
Identity-locked
Commitment
36 months
Security & Compliance
How to Get Started
Step 1
Discovery Call
Understand what you need to protect and how you operate.
Step 2
Vault Configuration
Select your tier, capacity, and access model.
Step 3
Identity Verification
Complete KYC/AML and set up multi-factor authentication.
Step 4
Go Live
Data ingestion, access policy activation, and ongoing support.
One Vault, every party, every stage of the recovery.
Offline Secure Storage sits at the centre of the resilience function, owned by the executives accountable for continuity, recovery and assurance. Snapshot capture and integrity validation feed the gold copy library on one set of wings; the recovery and assurance network and the live recovery workload the team runs in drills and incidents form the other. Nothing is reachable between sessions, and every touch is logged for auditors, insurers and regulators.
Backup Intake
- Snapshot schedules and capture windows defined for every protected system
- Integrity hashes and checksums recorded at the moment of capture
- Source-system inventory and crown-jewel mapping kept current
- Encryption keys and key-custody records held with the backup ledger
- Chain of custody from production to vault evidenced at each hop
- Test-restore evidence and validation reports tied to each generation
Gold Copy Library
- Immutable masters of crown-jewel data
- Golden images of operating systems
- Golden configurations for network and identity
- Source code, build artefacts and signing keys
- Database baselines and schema masters
- Document, contract and IP repositories
- Cyber-resilience evidence packs
- Last-known-good copies of critical apps
Recovery and Assurance Network
- External auditors and assurance providers
- Cyber insurers and broker risk teams
- Incident response retainers and forensic firms
- NCSC, ICO and sector regulators
- Hardware, hosting and DR-site partners
Live Recovery Workload
- DR DrillDRL
- Ransomware RehearsalRWR
- Restore TicketRST
- Cyber IncidentINC
- Audit Evidence PullAUD
Questions
Frequently Asked
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